xv, 487 p. : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. The path ahead / Jack A. Tuszynski and Nancy Woolf -- 2. Consciousness and quantum physics : empirical research on the subjective reduction of the statevector / Dick J. Bierman and Stephen Whitmarsh -- 3. Microtubules in the cerebral cortex : role in memory and consciousness / Nancy J. Woolf -- 4. Towards experimental tests of quantum effects in cytoskeletal proteins / Andreas Mershin, Hugo Sanabria, John H. Miller, Dharmakeerthna Nawarathna, Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos, Alexadre A. Kolomenskii, Hans A. Schuessler, Richard F. Luduena and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos -- 5. Physicalism, chaos and reductionism / Alwyn Scott -- 6. Consciousness, neurobiology and quantum mechanics : the case for a connection / Stuart Hameroff -- 7. Life, catalysis and excitable media : a dynamic systems approach to metabolism and cognition / Christopher James Davia -- 8. The dendritic cytoskeleton as a computational device : an hypothesis / Avner Priel, Jack A. Tuszynski and Horacion F. Cantiello -- 9. Recurrent quantum neural network and its applications / Laxmidhar Behera, Indrani Kar and Avshalom C. Elitzur -- 10. Microtubules as a quantum Hopfield network / Elizabeth C. Behrman, K. Gaddam, J. E. Steck and S. R. Skinner -- 11. Consciousness and quantum brain dynamics / Gordon Globus -- 12. The CEMI field theory : seven clues to the nature of consciousness / Johnjoe McFadden -- 13. Quantum cosmology and the hard problem of the conscious brain / Chris King -- 14. Consciousness and logic in a quantum computing universe / Paola Zizzi

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